Thembelihle is burning. One person is dead and at least three are wounded. Sixteen are in jail. The community’s voice is not being heard! All of this is the result of the community’s protest against poor service delivery and the unresponsiveness from Gauteng MEC of Human Settlements, Jacob Mamabolo. Police have only charged one of […]

For too many years our government’s national budget has reflected a commitment to conservative economic policies that gives tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations in the hope that they will create jobs and meet the needs of our people. While government has increased spending on social grants to reduce extreme poverty, on the whole economic policies […]

R2K notes the announcement that Al Jazeera News and the Guardian newspaper will publish a series of reports drawn from leaked documents that detail backroom dealings and discussions between various intelligence agencies across the world, including South Africa’s State Security Agency. The source of these documents appears to be a digital leak to Al Jazeera […]

The Right2Know Campaign invites everyone concerned by the recent attacks on democracy in parliament to a candle light vigil on Thursday 19 February at 18h00 in the Central Methodist Church,Longmarket Street, Cape Town. We call on the people of Cape Town to come in your numbers and send a clear message to those that aim to undermine our hard-won […]

The Right2Know Campaign and the Open Democracy Advice Centre will be among the bodies bringing an urgent application in the Cape High Court on Tuesday to get an interim order to interdict Parliament from jamming the communications from Parliament, ensure that the feed from Parliament is not cut, and that the cameras remain focused on […]

The Right2Know Campaign condemns the use of the military to surround the Parliament, the use of security (allegedly the police) to suppress dissenting voices inside the Parliamentary Chamber, and the jamming of internet and cellphone signals during last night’s State of the Nation Address. It is clear that these attacks on our democracy have – […]

R2K supports the Constitutional Court case brought by My Vote Counts (MVC) to challenge Parliament to pass a law to require political parties to disclose their funders. The case, which will be heard on Tuesday 10 February 2015, comes after more than a decade of inaction from Parliament on the need to tackle party funding […]

The Right2Know Campaign is saddened by the sudden death of Andre Brink, one of South Africa’s great literary figures. We will always remember Brink’s contribution to the fight against the draconian Secrecy Bill. At a historic R2K march to Parliament Brink delivered a petition against the secrecy bill signed by a wide range of writers […]

So the list of National Key Points is now public. This comes more than two years since R2K began campaigning against National Key Point secrecy. It is an outcome of work that started with the “Secrecy Bill” in 2010 and has expanded to a front of activism against all legislative, governmental and political attempts to […]

As we’ve stated elsewhere, National Key Points are just one category of secret ‘security’ sites. There is another category of sites out there called Strategic Installations – about 250 of them. Though we don’t know where or what they are, we believe these are mostly national and provincial government buildings. At R2K’s behest, the South […]